Question

What did the cases Plessy v. Ferguson and Brown v. Board of Education have to do with the 14th Amendment and with civil rights in the United States?

Answer 1

Answer: In 1896, the Supreme Court ruled in Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) that separate accommodations based on race was constitutional. 58 years later in Brown v. The Board of Education of Topeka (1954) the court ruled that separate accommodations based on race were inherently unequal and so unconstitutional.